“Hello can you understand me?” the Spirit asked “I said are you okay.”
“Ye..yes” Apple Bloom managed to say.
“Good sometimes those dogs go a little too far when they try to catch you ponies.”
“Who are you?” Apple Bloom asked
“Whats the name your kind has for me The Spirit right?” The creature smiled when he said that last part.
“You sure don’t look very Spirit like”
“We’ll talk about that later for now let me get you outta there we can’t stay out to long a sandstorm is coming”
“How can you tell?” Apple Bloom asked
“When you’ve lived out here as long as I have you can sense these kinda things. Can you walk?”
The Spirit pulled a knife from a pouch on its chest and cut the net holding Apple Bloom open. She immediately jumped of the cart and fell over from a pain the shot through her back left leg.
“Owwwww” Apple Bloom squealed
“Here let me look” The Spirit said has he gently checked her leg.
“I don’t think it’s anything serious, probably just a sprain from the fall just stay off of it for a while it should be fine.”
“But I’ve got to get home my big sis is gonna be out looking for me” Apple Bloom began to sniffle.
“Don’t worry about that here you can ride in here and I’ll take you home” The Spirit took a large pack off its back and
gestured to a pouch where Apple Bloom could sit in. “You can be like a kangaroo.”
“A what?” Apple Bloom sated with a puzzled look.
“Never mind” The Spirit quickly said
Apple bloom jumped into the pack and the Spirit hoisted it onto his back. After gathering up his belongings he began walking away from the Diamond Dogs cart.
“What about them?” Apple Bloom asked glancing toward the dogs.
“Don’t worry about them, so what’s your name little pony” The Spirit said quickly changing the subject.
“I’m Apple Bloom and what’s your name?”
The Spirit paused for a second then started walking again. “Just call me Spirit that’s what everyone calls me anyway.”
Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow at the word everyone.
“Okay so where are you from? I’ve never seen anything like you before not even in Zecora’s and Twilight’s books.”
“I’m from very far away, I guess you could say I’m the last of my kind.” The Spirit said sadly
“So if you’re not from here how did you get here?”
“I wish I knew”
“Wait last of your kind so there were others like you?”
“Yes”
“Where are they?”
“They…they left” The Spirit said in a somber tone
Apple Bloom sensed that the Spirit didn’t want to talk anymore and began to slowly drift asleep to the gentle rocking of the Spirits steps. She awoke to the rumbling of a sand storm. She was in a strange cave she was laying on a pile of straw with a blanket the same color as the clothes the Spirit wore. She looked around the new area she was in. There were crates with odd markings and words she had never seen. Many strange objects were sitting all around she saw the black object that the Spirit had carried she recognized one word on the side and picture on it.
”Colt” she read aloud. The picture was a stallion on its hind legs
“Awake again I see.” The Spirits voice startled her
Apple bloom turned to see the Spirit was no longer wearing the sand color clothing. In its place was a green shirt with black shorts.
“I figured you were hungry and since your name has Apple in it I thought you might like this.” The spirit sat a bowl down in front of Apple Bloom The bowl contained tiny pieces of apple covered with a honey colored syrup with small brown spots. Apple Bloom brought here head down to the bowl and took sniff of the contents. She took a nibble out of it and immediately went in for more.
“This is delicious!” she exclaimed “Tastes like some of Granny Smiths desseret”
“Good I’m glad you like it” the Spirit chuckled “I have more if you’re still hungry.”
“Where are we?” Apple Bloom said as she finished her meal.
“My home” the Spirit said “you’re the first visitor I’ve had”
“What do you mean you said earlier you’ve been here awhile why would no pony vist you?”
“I try to stay out of your kinds business only intervening when I have to.” The Spirit explained
“But the others of your kind they don’t live here?”
“As I said I’m the last of my kind here.”
“So why stay?”
“I don’t know how to go back home.”
“How did you get here?”
The Spirit let out a long sigh
“It happened over ten years ago myself and five others were in a helicopter flying through a desert.”
“A heli-what?” Apple Bloom interrupted.
“A flying machine.” The Spirit answered
“You have a flying machine?”
“Not any more now let me finish.”
The Spirit continued his story
“We were flying through a desert and suddenly a violent sandstorm came out of nowhere. The flying machine we were in crashed when. We came too we were here. After a while we realized we were somewhere new, your home land Apple Bloom. Our leader decided that we stay hidden until we figured out what was going on. That changed within a month we came across one of your kind stranded in the desert alone. Much like you had never seen my kind I had never seen yours. We didn’t know what to make of your kind were you aggressive towards us, friendly? We followed him for a day until he collapsed our leader changed his mind and he carried the lost pony to a nearby village and left him on the outskirts.”
“Artie Fact!” Apple Bloom yelled
“What?” the Spirit said
“Artie Fact that’s the name of the pony you rescued. He is the one that told me the story about you.”
“Huh I always wondered how he turned out. So ever since then we made it our job to protect your kind when they got lost out here.”
“So what about the others, where exactly did they go?”
“Out of the five I came here with two said they wanted to go home. They walked into the desert and we never saw them again. One got bitten by a snake and never recovered. The last to go was our leader he was taken by those Dogs when I found him it was too late.”
“I’m sorry” Apple Bloom said
“It’s ok kid because of him many of your kind got away from the Dogs he would have wanted it that way.” The Spirit explained “That’s how he was” The Spirit was silent for a moment “Get some rest tomorrow I’ll take you to the village and they can get you home.”
“What about you?” Apple Bloom asked “What will you do when I leave?”
“I’ll be here and do what I’ve always done keep your kind out of trouble in the desert.”
“Why don’t you come with me why I bet Twilight could find a way to get you home and if she can’t well…I’ll take you to see the Princess she can do anything.”
“We’ll see” the Spirit smiled “Just get some rest okay it’s a long journey to the village.”